Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1855

pg 249            2.  Cincinnati is not only the largest city of Ohio, but of 
             all the West, of which it is called the Queen.  It has about 
             150,000 inhabitants and stands on the left bank of the river of 
             the same name, nearly all of whose commerce it absorbs.
                  In 1857, the Society of Holy Cross founded an establishment 
             of four Brothers and one priest for the orphans of St. Joseph--an 
             institution already existing for ten years for the German 
             population.  The difficulty of setting up an understanding with
             the temporal and lay administration of this asylum caused the 
             foundation to be abandoned after eighteen months, and the Brothers 
             that were there at the time moved to St. John's, a large parish 
             where they soon had charge of three or four hundred children.  The 
             conditions were are still are the same.  The Brothers are paid 
             $1000, and they find their own board and lodging.  At present we 
             have three Brothers there teaching German, one teaching English, 
             and a fifth for the kitchen.